Puzzle apparatus



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(MOdeL) PUZZLE APPARATUS.

Patented Feb, 20, 1894.

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EDWIN E. BLANCI-IARD, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

PUZZLE APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.- 514,901, datedFebruary 20, 1894.

To aIZ Z whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN E. BLANCHARD,

of the city of Troy, Rensselaer county, State of New York, have inventeda new and useful Puzzle Apparatus, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to a puzzle apparatus, (and as will be more fully.set forth in the claim) consists of a frame having two upright sides,and three cross-bars arranged between, and at. right angles to thesides; each of which bars is made with a cord passage at each end whereadjacent to the side-bars; said cord-passages being in alignment; and acord having a threading needle atone of its ends and a ball at the0ther; said cord being adapted to be passed up through said bars, and anintermediately placed disk or button between the bottom and middlebarand between the latter and the top bar at each side of the frame.

Accompanying this specification to form a part of it there is a sheet ofdrawings contain-.

ing two figures illustrating my invention with the same designation ofits parts by letter reference used in both of them.

,Of the illustrations Figure 1, is a perspective of my puzzle apparatuswith the parts shown in a position forthe solution of the puzzle withthe buttons shown as raised from off the cross-bars. Fig.2, is anotherperspective of the apparatus with the parts appearing when the puzzlehas been solved.

The several parts of the apparatus thus illusitratedand their functionare described as folows.

The letter F, designates the frame made with the sides S, the topcross-bar B made with thecord passages 0, 0 the middle crossbar B madewith the cord passages 0 O and E the bottom cross-bar made with the cordpassages 0 0 The letter O, designates the cord having the threadingneedle N, at one of its ends, and the ball E, at its other end.

Application filed May 29. 1893. Serial No. 475,816. (Model-l tween thebottom and middle bar and one between the latter and the top bar; thecord is then passed downwardly through the holes in the other end of thecross-bar, and a disk between the top and middle bar and also onebetween the middle and bottom bar as shown at Fig. 1. The solution ofthe puzzle consists in so threading the cord back and forth through thecord passages and those in the bars as to bring the disks into theposition below the bottom bar on the cord above the ball as shown atFig. 2.

With the buttons threaded on to the cord as shown at Fig. l, to removethem and have them appear as shown at Fig. 2, take a loop with the cordaround the lower end of the right hand side vertical bar, adj aeent towhere the cord and threading needle emerges, or around the little fingerof the operators hand and then pass the cord up through the righthandhole in the lower cross bar and the button thereat, with the frame thusheld, then up through the right-hand hole of the middle bar and throughthe button between the latter andthe top cross-bar, then through thelatter, then pass the cord down through thelefthand hole in the topcross-bar; then down through the button between the top cross-bar andthrough the middle cross-bar at the left hand, then down through thebutton between the middle cross-bar and the bottom cross-bar at theleft-hand side of the frame, through the bottom cross-bar; then pass thecord outside of the lower cross bar at the left-hand side, then throughthe button between the middle and bottom cross-bars outside of thelatter bar, then up through the button between the left-hand topandmiddle cross-bars outside of the latter; then down through the buttonbetween the right-hand top and middle cross bars outside of the latter,then through the lower right-hand button outside of the bar; then removethe loop from the dle end, passing the needle through all the holes anddisks (looping the cord around little finger as before) pass needle backthrough first hole (button end) without going through the disks; comeback with needle without going through hole, and pick up first disk,thenpass needle through second hole without going through disk, comebackwith needle without going through hole and pick up second disk; thenpass the needle through third and fourth hole without going throughdisk, come back without going through any of the holes and pick up thirddisk; then pass needle through fifth hole, come back with needle andpick up fourth disk, then pass needle through sixth and last hole. Droploop from finger,

take needle in one hand and with other hand carefully pass the loop cordout of holes and the disks, when the disks will take their originalplaces.

disks or buttons made with a central cord passage, constructed andarranged to be used substantially in the manner as and for the purposesset forth.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 25th day of March, 1893, in the presenceof the two Witnesses whose names are hereto written.

EDWIN E. BLANOHARD.

Witnesses:

W. E. HOGAN, CHARLES S. BRINTNALL.

